THE REDWOOD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Des Moines Lobe setting.
Redwood County has 878.6 square miles of land in Minnesota. The mapped landscape region in Redwood County is Des Moines Lobe.
Glacial till plains and windblown loess hills make up the Western Corn Belt landscape. Near-level and rolling terrain are interspersed with steeper river valleys and hills.
Regional context: Western Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Redwood County
The atlas lists 40 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Redwood County, including Paxton, Johnsonville, Granite Rock. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Redwood County by land and water
The Census records 3.17 square miles of water within Redwood County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Redwood County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Redwood County has 1,033.6 times the land area of nearby Wabasso city (0.85 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brown County, Cottonwood County, Lyon County, Murray County, Renville County, Yellow Medicine County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

